Sony ICF S22

It is impossible to have a great affection for a clock radio. It performs one of the most disliked tasks that any electrical device can do - it wakes you up in a morning. The 390 LWH can do this either with a buzzer or with a pre-selected radio station. Frankly why you would choose the buzzer I do not know when you can wake up to Sara Cox or Sarah Kennedy, though wait a minute the buzzer suddenly becomes an attractive option. The clock/radio works best off the mains but you need to have a battery for back-up particularly if like me you live out in the country where the area is prone to power cuts. The clock radio has always been reliable and keeps good time. ...  Read the complete review

The Sony ICF-S 22 is a hand held portable radio which I just stumble across few days ago. I don't know were we got it from, maybe it was given to us, I can't remember. I simply put batteries inside it to check if it works and it did so thought might as well review it. The portable radio is of old style and not DAB. It's silver and has your traditional manual radio tuning dial on the side. It has a speaker which takes up most of the front and the rest is taken up by the station frequency wave numbers, AM/FM. At the side you have a headphone jack and above it near the corner a string handle. It has an extendable Arial which when not in use tucks in nicely same ...  Read the complete review

About 4 years ago before going on a camping trip to Norfolk, I made the decision to spend £10 on a "decent" portable radio. I had not any previous luck with a couple of wind up radios that simply didnt charge or were not a good enough quality in reception. I purchased the Sony icf-s22 from a Woolworths store for £9.99 and have simply not looked back. It a tough, durable portable FM/AM radio that takes two AA batteries. The power consumption is excellent, as i seem to have to change the batteries very rarely indeed. I use the radio on all camping trips and on my boat and i have never had any complaints. Be it about reception, battery usage ...  Read the complete review